Arabia to slash numbers on the pilgrimage and to bar muslims from outside. Too dominant and too powerful thats whats being leveled against 4 of americas Largest Tech Companies at a congressional hearing in washington d. C. The chief executives of Facebook Google amazon and apple have all been defending their Business Practices theyre accused of stifling competition and monopolizing the industry free from regular action its the culmination of a yearlong investigation by the u. S. Congress detailing how the Companies Avoid liability on the current laws well our correspondent alan fischer joins us now from capitol hill for more on that hearing allan i believe its just all wrapped up after more than 5 hours talk us through what weve had today. Well the Tech Companies are essentially saying that theyre very american and that their end of it if theyre smart and they make big profits and they say that theyve had to be innovative and theyve had to include people because if they didnt they woul
979 Shah Mohammed to raise up here he was overthrown by a revolution that put an end to a monarchy that was more than 2500 years old. Shouted through nature i didnt believe it was an uprising at 1st. You know. 3rd sewing machines for 1st gradually and then suddenly. The shahs mistake was to want to do too much too fast mohamed raise a pocket he was the last shah of iran and a key figure in well politics during the 2nd half of the 20th century. And was the shiite ayatollah ruhollah khomeini. He became a beacon of resistance to the shops rule. The by group got to see the 2 of them were polar opposites both in terms of social image and personality by then goes on they became very fierce antagonists absolutely when the shot developed. And almost of such an whether their rivalry lasted almost a lifetime eventually the shah was defeated and with the ayatollahs victory came islamic fundamentalism a new challenge for world politics. In september 941 at the height of the 2nd world war the Irani
Data with police. Brazils president shuttles are not always tested again for covert 19 as the situation in his country gets worse. Tarantula rain hampers relief and rescue efforts in southwest japan where floods have killed at least 50 people. And with your sports including a formula one comeback for Fernando Alonso and in american football Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahoney signs a deal to give him the highest contract in the history of professional sports. The u. S. Drone strike in january that killed a top iranian general hossam so the money was unlawful thats the conclusion of the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings. Says the killing went against the u. N. Charter in january the white house said the attack on samani was carried out at the direction of u. S. President donald trump and was aimed to deterring future attacks allegedly being planned by iran our diplomatic editor james bays is at the United Nations and has more on the report. Well its
Efforts in southwest japan or floods and killed at least 50 people. Brazils president has announced that hes tested positive for corona virus jailable sonata was taken to a Military Hospital on monday after coming down with a fever both senator has been widely criticized for refusing to wear a mask in public and footed noting social distancing rules. I just got a positive result yes its positive so it all began on sunday when i started feeling slightly ill and it worsened on monday when i felt worse tired muscle pain and a fever that reached 38 degrees ok lets go to haasan most whod whos live for us in sao paulo haasan how do you think that people there are going to react to the news that the president has covered 19 after hes been so determined to play it down. Well the people here in brazil are reacting fast the since yesterday when president said that he made and you know virus just after he felt that he has a fever and and had a lot of sentiments of the virus and the people are rea
In the vote they abstain didnt vote for it and that was on sanctions they wanted some language condemning the sanctions on syria particularly the sanctions by the u. S. And they said at the time of Economic Hardship in syria it was not the time to pursue those sanctions that language didnt get into get into the final version of the resolution although russia wanted it in there and thats why russia and china abstained Dominican Republic also abstained for the opposite reasons they were so unhappy with this process and the fact that the people of syria particularly Northern Syria are going to average east flow of aid as a result of all of this i spoke to the belgian and german ambassadors a short time ago they had been leading the negotiations they were very tired and very frustrated they though are professional diplomats and were not going to say anything to me that was too damning but ive also spoken to other officials off the record and its very clear there is a very very bitter atmos